‘Constructed in 2002, N House has been quietly occupying its Brisbane hillside site for two decades. It is not a heroic building, able to be understood and admired at a single glance. Rather, it is a place that has been exactingly designed to be experienced gradually, whether that be over one visit or in the course of a lifetime’s inhabitation. Timothy Hill describes the project as “a garden with a building at its edges.” Like all gardens, it has taken season after season to mature, so though the building is 20 years old, he considers it to be still only “almost finished”. This unhurried approach is indicative of the central objective underpinning all his work – namely, that it should have the capacity to support a minimum 75 years of continuous use.’

Photographs by David Chatfield